10 EDITING
Photographs are the raw materials; the editing suite is where you stamp your mark and bring your digital dish together
You can transform colour images into stunning black and whites from raw files, in Camera Raw or Lightroom , using basic adjustments and tone curves.
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EDIT LIKE A PRO
Master these methods to fine-tune your images with pinpoint precision
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on-destructive editing
Tools like Adjustment Layers and Layer Masks allow you to make edits independently of one another, so you can always retrace your steps and undo decisions later on.
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ake local adjustments
Local adjustment tools like Lightroom’s Radial Filter and Graduated Filter can be used to apply selective edits by targeting a specific portion of an image.